Brewers

Garrett Mitchell takes home the Brewer Fanatic Rookie of the Year prize, producing an .832 OPS down the stretch while playing terrific center field defense. In also swiping eight bases without being caught, Mitchell heralds an exciting new brand of baseball in Milwaukee.

While the Brewers fell short of the playoffs for the first time in five seasons, there were still noteworthy performances on the diamond to talk about. Congratulations to the Brewer Fanatic Most Improved Player for 2022, Hoby Milner!

Even with a disappointing end to the 2022 season, the Brewers still received a incredible effort from their everyday shortstop. Congrats to Willy Adames on being named our MVP for the 2022 season!

The Milwaukee Brewers Best Rookie and Most Improved, as voted by Brewer Fanatic staff, have been revealed. We find our way once again on the mound where Corbin Burnes follows up his 2021 Cy Young Award-winning season with the 2022 Brewer Fanatic Pitcher of the Year Award. I'm sure it's just as meaningful to the 27-year-old. 

The latest mock featured here is a dual mock draft done by Jamie Cameron from TwinsDaily, and me. We alternated back and forth on the Top 30 selections of this upcoming weekend's draft.

Justin Jarvis was the Brewers fifth-round pick in 2018 out of high school in his home state of North Carolina. He's certainly had his ups and downs in his development, but after a slow start in Wisconsin, something clicked and he finished his season strong, including a promotion to Double-A. In part one, we discuss growing up and developing his baseball talent, being scouted and ultimately getting drafted. Check it out.  

At the end of Part 1 of our Spotlight conversation with Justin Jarvis, we discuss the Brewers drafting him in the fifth round of the 2018 draft. In Part 2 today, we discuss his professional career in the Brewers organization, his development, his pitches, and what helped him turn a corner during the 2022 season. 

The draft will take place just over 50 days from now. Unlike most other drafts, seven-plus weeks is just too far away to forecast with any certainty how the draft is going to go. 

But that doesn’t mean we can’t try!

It’s math.

Who is the most successful pitcher in Brewer history? Sheets? Gallardo? Bosio? Caldwell? Nope. The answer is Teddy Higuera. The amazing thing is that Higuera was plunked out of the Mexican league at age 25 - and still had an astounding run from 1986-88 where averaged 7.7 bWAR a year. That run solidified Higuera as the most productive pitcher in franchise history.

With Aaron Ashby landing on the IR and Woodruff still a little ways out, the Brewers only have four  starting pitchers on the roster. Chi Chi Gonzalez will likely make that five on Tuesday.

When Mike Hegan’s contract was sold to the expansion Seattle Pilots, little did he realize that it would lead to a relationship with the organization that would last 19 years - including two stints as a player, and then a 12-year run as an announcer.